The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-19

.ceo0is, and who, from some cause OF
other, are Unable to patronize them.
Especially is this the case In the Yszoo
Delta, where the white population i 40
scant, that though there are schools.
yet very few for white children.
50 you Sc, that the argument.
that keeping up these Colleges.
designed and carried on for the
be'seft Of poor boys end girls, oppresses the
poor, when examined, is found 70 be MT
teriy baseless. With every sympathv
OF my nature for the misfortunes of the
poor-with every act of NV public life
guld and directed by this synapsthy2
feel that | ought to denounce this un-
Just and unfair argument, ;a.ended to
cheat the iaboring, toiling masses of
mississippi out of q fair opportunity of
aay1neement and progress, as unworthy
10 De made or entertained.
there Is class of men-fey. iadaed
as believe, yet who have always exist.
ed IN Tree government-who,i lust before
an election in which they seek for Of
rec, tu0rtb more IA q month tkqH a Y-boy-
tng man gets ia year, beco he exceed.
ingiy solicitous about the welfare of the
roorr-the laborers, and exhibit their
ef iy-nade sympathy, not by devising
honest, real measures for their adj.
yanceLent and welfare, but in preach.
ing discomfort and weeping, in public.
a pretended sympathy for ills which
they never feel. II ese men, sometimes.
are doubtless since e, and believe what
they say. For it is true that man NAV
habltually assert his belief in shams
and delusions, until they become to him
realities. An eminent physician in an
adjoining county TO yours, tells me that
ne has kept off old age by constantly and
haoitually training his mind TO the be-
lief that he is ten years younger than he
Is. Now, in opposition to all this stuff
about the oppression of the poor, by the
taxing and educational system of Missis-
sippi, | say that the taxing system is
exceptionally in their favor, as Il ought
70 DC. Poverty is a misfortune more
OFTEN than fault; but il is not condi-
uon, the existence of which laws and
measures of government should encour-
age. On the contrary, the grandest
aims of craftsmanship are to remove
pauperlsm and want from the State.
Ihls can't be done by mere legislative
enactments. 1t is not in human power,
oy the mere fiat of !" be ii enacted" to
create wealth or remove poverty. The
removal comes when governments are
talr and Just, only from, but always
from superior intelligence, energy, self
denial and thrift. The man who, by
these methods, has acquired property, is
not TO be regarded as an enemy of socie-
ty, but as its friend; and he is entitled
10 all the protection of the laws that the
humblest and the grandest are entitled
TO- Ii you Danish such men you Danish
progress and enterprise. You may by
TINS measure get the desired level; but
1t Will be level in which the misery
and want and the despair of the poor
VIII be increased. So, again | say, we
must level upwards, not downwards, by
eievating the lowly-not by putting
down those who have won a pre-emi-
hence by their own skill, energy and
self-denial.
The best method known to man-to
level upwards, to elevate the humble
and depressed--is by education; not
always and alone education in the
schools, but also in many instances by
Just as efficient education coming from
daily contact with superior intelligence,
in social and business life. An inteli-
gent farmer in a neighborhood is An
educator to all who associate with him
and observe his methods; and so in all
other walks of life. You had an in
stance in your own neighborhood, re-
membered we'll by older citizens, of q
man who could not read nor write, yet
made and managed well large fortune,
and was one of the most intelligent pol
itieians Carroll county ever produced
yet he never sought or held an Office.
God has made mind superior to mat
ter intelligence, the master and con-
troller of ignorance. Whatever people
shall neglect, properly to diffuse among
themselves intelligent business methods
in all they do-merchandizing the pro-
fessions, and strange as some old fogies
may think of it, IN .fdrnning--will 0t0dy'
| be left behind in want and poverty,
| whilst their neighbors, acting on the op.
p)-'te idea, will progress in wealth, and
OFTEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE MORE
| GNoRANT.
Whoever crosses the line which sepa
rates the old free, from the old slave
State, into the country where Anglo
Saxon brains and intelligence mostly
predominate,
WILL SEE THE DIFFERENCE
between slipshod, careless, and unintelli.
gent cultivation, and the more careful
and intelligent. And what Southern
man is there, who, seeing this, will not
regret the conditions which produce our
inferiority? The truth is, that wealth,
comfort and independence go hand in
hand with intelligence, and especially,
with that intelligence which makes the
worker in ANY BUSINESS, the coILplete
master of it, instead of slave to 1T.
New England, barren in its soil, in
hospitable in its climate, with an area
for six States but fraction larger than
Mississippi, and the half of Mississippi,
dominates the United States. This is
done, not by force, but by brains and
the Intelligence of her people They
have levied contributions on the balance
of us, in the shape of protection to the'-
manufacturers, and bOunties to their
fisheries, until their wealth is almost
fabulous. New England has been smart
enough to induce the balance, less intel
lie to believe that this aggrandise-
ment was legitimate. All over New
En-. land are universities, colleges, acad-
emies, high schools, common schools,
chronological Institutes, SCHOOLS TO
TEACH MEN ESPECIALLY THE TRADES
THEY ARE TO FOLLOW. Right here 1t
will be needful to state some
FIGURES ON SCHOOL TAXATION:
Prop'tn Of all